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Akunis refusing to quit cabinet for Hanegbi

Science and Technology Minister Ophir Akunis does not intend to honor a commitment he made when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed his government to quit the cabinet after a year, he said Sunday in closed conversations.

When Netanyahu’s ministers were sworn in last year on May 14, Netanyahu’s office sent the press a message saying that Akunis had been appointed a minister for a year and after that, he would switch places with coalition chairman Tzachi Hanegbi.